He left the Friday night preceding Labor Day, the first Monday in September, which was a holiday throughout the city.
It struck him as very interesting that he should be trying so radical a thing as daylabor for his nerves.
I have been suffering from a nervous breakdown and am going to try day labor for awhile.
Oh, dear, this darn daylabor business gives me a pain.
He was constantly having trouble with the labor unions on this score, for they objected to a policy which cut out duplication of effort and so eliminated their men.
They rocked and swung idly, he pushing with his feet at times in which labor she joined him.
The sanest thing for him to do would be to quit trying, go at some other form of labor and forget all about it.
His work with Deegan had given him a sharp impression of what hard, earnest labor meant.
If tickets had to be bought, time tables consulted, inquiries made, any labor of argument or dispute engaged in, he was loath to enter on it.
Because he did not permanently belong to this world of day labor and because his position which had been given him as a favor was moderately secure, he felt superior to everything about him.
Roustabouts, the labor battalion of the circus army, join up out of curiosity and quit when satiated.
Droughts, floods, crop failures, labor troubles, and great fires are some of the many things to be avoided in the routings.
Of course there will be some labor costs in getting the pump installed, but three hundred will pay all bills.
In the first place, the laws of labor were despised and capital was consumed without any adequate return.
It was necessary to have people to organize this labor and to oversee its work--that is, "bosses" were necessary.
Starting from the hypothesis that all wealth is created by labor, and limiting all labor to the wage-earner, there is no other conclusion, if the premise be admitted, than that the product of industry belongs to labor exclusively.
In the industrial life the division of labor and formation of special groups are more clearly manifested.
Prior to the dominion of the church, labor had become degrading, for slavery had supplanted free labor to such an extent that all labor appeared dishonorable.
The Christians taught that labor was honorable, and they labored with their own hands, built monasteries, developed agriculture, and in many other ways taught that it is noble to labor.
They forget the man in the laboratory and exploit the results of his laborfor their own personal gain.
While the hours of labor have been reduced in general to eight per day, the irregularity of employment leads to unrest and frequently to great distress.
Later we find the towns beginning to trade with each other, and with this expanded industry the division of labor came about and the separation of laborers into classes.
Gradually, however, partly by his own demands, partly by the growing humanity of capitalistic employers, and partly because of the interest of outside philanthropic statesmen, labor has been protected by laws.
Gradually this has disappeared to a large extent through the multiplication of industries outside the home, power manufacture, and the organization of labor and capital.
The superintending of the fields frequently fell to the lot of the hausfrau, and the labor was done by serfs.
This led, of course, to a distinct division of occupation, and later to a division of labor within the occupation.
What plan would you suggest for settling the labor problem so as to avoid strikes?
The Plight of Mankind The plight of mankind, the condition and circumstances under which we live and labor are truly disheartening, and the darkness of prejudice and ill-will enough to chill the stoutest heart.
How great our privilege to laborin this Day in the Divine Vineyard!
The labor women accomplished, the hardships they endured, the time and strength they sacrificed in the War that summoned three million men to arms, can never be fully appreciated.
How different would be the solution of the great educational question of manual labor in the schools, if the matter had to be settled at Washington!
Together we withstood the Republicans and abolitionists, when, a second time, they made us the most solemn promises of earnest labor for our enfranchisement, when the slaves were safe beyond a peradventure.
When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.
Having always lived in a large house in the country, the quarters seemed rather contracted at first, but I soon realized the immense saving in labor and expense in having no more room than is absolutely necessary, and all on one floor.
In 1867 we can read account of herculean labor the second.
Every right achieved, to enter a college, to study a profession, to labor in some new industry, or to advocate a reform measure was contended for inch by inch.
In thought and sympathy we were one, and in the division of labor we exactly complemented each other.
But it was labor in the cause of my sex; it was aiding in the creation of "The Woman Question in Europe," and so my pen did not grow slack nor my hand weary.
Six weeks of steady labor all day, and often until midnight, made no visible decrease in the pile of documents.
Accustomed, as most women had been to works of charity and to the relief of outward suffering, it was difficult to rouse their enthusiasm for an idea, to persuade them to labor for a principle.
If you will not let me call the one kind of labor Christian, and the other unchristian, at least you will let me call the one moral, and the other immoral, and that is all I ask you to admit.
We prepare him indirectly, leaving him free to the mysterious and divine labor of reproducing things according to his own feelings.
This labor must always be executed by means of the muscles, whether it be manual labor, speaking or writing.
We need special researches as to what type of activity may be allowed children during digestion and what organs may be active without damage to the child while the stomach is taxed with the labor of digestion.
The teacher should be relieved as much as possible of the labor of preparation and research: for her delicate work of intervention is a task hard enough in itself.
This permits considerable saving in manufacture; for, to get a different sound from bells of the same size, different thicknesses are required, and this entails more labor for construction and consequently greater cost.
For four days, at a time when every day's labor was invaluable in their pursuit, they abandoned their work to aid in my restoration.
But the supply of African labor is limited, and the increased profit on cotton renders the cost of that labor heavier in its turn,--the value of the negro rising one hundred dollars for every additional cent of profit on a pound of cotton.
They labor unconsciously to look crowded, and would sooner go into a cellar to eat their oysters than have them in the finest saloon above ground.
With the growth of other branches of industry, labor will become respectable and profitable, and laborers will flock to the country; and a new, a purer, and more prosperous future will open upon the entire Republic.
On the one hand we see the capitalist owning the labor of a thousand slaves, and on the other the laboring white unable, under the destructive influence of a profitable monopoly, to make any use of that labor which is his only property.
The increased cost of the labor increases the cost of producing the cotton.
Did he think that he was laying a train to blow the Republicans off their platform, and leave off his labor in a fright, when he found that the powder-bags to be exploded had been placed under the foundations of the Union?
In India, labor is 80 per cent cheaper than in the United States.
The question here is solely with the policy and tendency of the Cotton dynasty as affecting the master-class, and the servile class is in that consideration to be summarily disposed of as so much labor owned by so much capital.
Thou art the very nicest boy I know," she said, "but it seemeth so strange to me that thou shouldst labor with thy hands, and shouldst talk as if thou didst believe that it is good and not degrading to do so.
Thy thought is worthy of thy greatness," replied Athanasius, "and showeth me that the welfare of the Church and of the emperor must be identical in every true and proper government, so that priest and soldier both may labor for its glory.
The siege of Byzantium, which was immediately undertaken by Constantine, was attended with great labor and uncertainty.
To his abundant and complete work as a teacher he added the labor of overseeing the material affairs of the college,--a labor devolved upon him, perhaps, on account of his superior executive ability.
He performed some literary labor after this, and read the concluding proof sheet of a work that he was carrying through the press for the New Hampshire Historical Society.
In March, he was so much encouraged in respect to himself that he remarked to a friend that he thought God would indulge the cherished wish of his heart, and permit him again to labor as a minister.
John Pickering, the preparation of a Greek lexicon, a work involving much labor and research, and the larger portion of which fell to his lot.
After a year's experience of the practice, or desire of practice, of law, the professor was ready to return to his field of labor in the college.
It was his duty, a belief of his fitness for his post, that kept him from some inviting fields of labor elsewhere.
That no scholar shall be employed in labor in the hours of study, or so as to interrupt him in his studies, unless upon special emergencies, and with liberty from the president or a tutor.
After ably filling this chair several years, by a division of labor he was permitted to confine himself exclusively to the Greek language and literature.
Their reading is a labor in which every faculty of the mind is awake and active.
In the stimulus of these lower needs, then, is found the impulse which drives men to labor; and without labor welfare is not possible.
The impatient cannot love thelabor by which the mind is cultivated, because impatience implies a sense of restraint, a lack of freedom.
The young, who are eager and restless, find it difficult to work with patience and perseverance, especially when the reward of labor is remote, and in the excitement and hurry of American life, such work often seems to be impossible.
With unresting, wearing thought and labor we are striving to make earth more habitable.
We know that God is, and therefore that all will be well; and if it were conceivable that God is not, it would still be the part of a true man to labor to make knowledge and virtue prevail.
In a word, the final thought is that we labor to upbuild the being which we are, and not merely to build round our real self with marble and gold and precious stones.
This is the source of intellectual wealth, of tranquil moods, of patience in the midst of opposition, of confidence in the fruitfulness of labor and the transforming power of time.
We are told of the inauguration of this great missionary labor in the spirit world, as effected by the Christ himself.
But thislabor for the dead is two-fold; it comprises the proper performance of the required ordinances on earth, and the preaching of the gospel to the departed.
Four others have been constructed in the vales of Utah, and are today in service, dedicated to the blessing of the living, and particularly to the vicarious labor of the living in behalf of the dead.
I wish Alan Hawke to blunder around, hunting for Major Hardwicke, and so give me an opportunity to do my duty secretly, and to aid you in your own labor of love.
He has put on me the thankless labor and care of watching over yere worldly gear, and of keeping ye safely to the lines of prudence and of a just economy.
After reaching shore, or Shell Island, the labor of getting to Corpus Christi was slow and tedious.
She makes them self-supporting, but gives the benefit of labor to the laborer.
His industry and independence of character were such, that I imagine his labor compensated fully for the expense of his maintenance.
The party that ascended the mountain the second time succeeded in reaching the crater at the top, with but little of the labor they encountered in their first attempt.
The products of the soil are so valuable that labor in her fields would be so compensated as to enable those who wished to go there to quickly repay the cost of their passage.
The system of labor would have soon exhausted the soil and left the people poor.
I performed all the labor of breaking up the ground while the other officers planted the potatoes.
This labor would support but a very limited percentage of them.
Inventions were made in all kinds of machinery to increase the products of a day's labor in the shop, and in the field.
The reconnoissance was completed, and the labor of cutting out and making roads by the flank of the enemy was effected by the 17th of the month.
The labor of building the batteries and intrenching was largely done by the pioneers, assisted by negroes who came within our lines and who were paid for their work; but details from the troops had often to be made.
Farming had been undertaken by the company to supply the Indians with bread and vegetables; they raised some cattle and horses; and they had now taught the Indians to do the labor of the farm and herd.
The labor of the country was not skilled, nor allowed to become so.
Labor is very cheap in China, where a workman earns three halfpence a day, and this cheapness of labor enables the Chinese to manipulate each sheet of paper separately.
I will lead the work-a-day life, the tradesman's life of sober toil, and the patientlabor of scientific research.
The ox for patientlabor in the fields, the free life for the bird," he thought to himself.
The gold-digger working in the mine does not labor as we to wrest metaphors from the heart of the most ungrateful of all languages.
I have taught him to believe in goodness, to hope for it, and thenlabor to have it," said Fanny Jane.
He was a stout boy, and the board, only slightly nailed, gave way before the pressure he applied to it; but it required a great deal of labor to detach it from the timbers above and below.
Hope for what is good and true, and you shall have it; for if you really desire it, you will be sure to labor and to struggle for it.
A fortnight of severe labor and constant watchfulness was passed by the exiles, when a great event occurred to them.
He hugged a hot hatred grown to white heat in six years of prison labor within bleak walls at the clicking shoe-machine, or with the chain-gang on blazing or frosty turnpikes.
Two days and a night of almost uninterrupted labor had given a severe strain to her nerves, and left her in a dangerous state.
There are many Christies, willing to work, yet unable to bear the contact with coarser natures which makes labor seem degrading, or to endure the hard struggle for the bare necessities of life when life has lost all that makes it beautiful.
Inexpressibly wretched were the dreary days, the restless nights, with only pain and labor for companions.
She kept the little house in order, with Mrs. Sterling to direct and share the labor so pleasantly, that mistress and maid soon felt like mother and daughter, and Christie often said she did not care for any other wages.
Much out-of-door life was good for her, and in garden and green-house there was plenty of light labor she could do.
He forcefully condemns all haphazard use of vocal resources and says that the singer should labor to penetrate the meaning and passion of that which he sings and to convey it to the hearer.
I have done my duty faithfully, and taken no more than my just pay for the labor I have performed.
Was he under any obligation to Mr. Belcher which his honest and faithful labor did not discharge?
The man had spent his life in schemes for absorbing the products of the labor of others.
There is not one who does not rejoice that the evil influence of this house is departed, and that one now occupies it who thoroughly respects and honors the manhood and womanhood that labor in his service.
The French made it a war of men; so that the price of labor rose enormously at once, and the condition of the working classes forthwith changed greatly for the better--one good result of the Revolution, at any rate.
Once the trees were thoroughly established, the labor investment has been very small.
In the first place, I ask, what living thing upon one's farm will cause less labor than a forest tree?
And they have done it with safety, with little labor on my part and, lately, with annual dividends of excellent nuts and good pasture.
I promise to treat you with all consideration, and as for the labor you are to do, it will be very light indeed.
We had passed the coffee hour, forgetting it in the pleasure of the bath and the labor of dressing.
After a little discussion we settled upon Barbados and began the labor of packing.
I have thought that the playing might be divided between several members, through which means the laborfor each would be reduced, and, on the whole, an intimate familiarity with the music be more widely extended in the club.
There are few piano pieces in the repertory which produce so much effect in proportion to the labor of performing them as this.
